Summary of Many Perception Tasks Are Highly Redundant Functions Of Their Input Data, by Rahul Ramesh et al.
Many Perception Tasks are Highly Redundant Functions of their Input Data
by Rahul Ramesh, Anthony Bisulco, Ronald W. DiTullio, Linran Wei, Vijay Balasubramanian, Kostas Daniilidis, Pratik Chaudhari
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper reveals that various perception tasks, including visual recognition, semantic segmentation, and optical flow estimation, can be successfully solved using images or spectrograms projected into different subspaces. The authors demonstrate that data variability is not essential for task performance, as different subspaces contain redundant information relevant to the task. They show that top, intermediate, or bottom subspaces with varying degrees of data variability can all yield remarkable results. This phenomenon is attributed to the presence of redundant information across different subspaces. The paper’s findings have implications for model development and may inform more effective approaches to perception tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine taking a picture or listening to music, then breaking it down into smaller parts that are connected in some way. This paper shows that many tasks, like recognizing objects or understanding speech, can be done by analyzing these smaller parts (called subspaces) instead of the whole thing. It doesn’t matter which part you look at – they all have useful information that helps with the task. This is because different parts contain similar details that are important for the job. The researchers found that this approach works well for many tasks, which could lead to new ways of building models and solving problems. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Optical flow * Semantic segmentation
